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Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Sensor Fundamentals -- What are sensors? -- Types of sensors -- Types of sensor values -- Motion, position, and environmental sensors -- Motion sensors -- Position sensors -- Environmental sensors -- Sensors' coordinate system -- Android Sensor Stack -- Components of the sensor framework -- SensorManager -- SensorEventListener -- Sensor -- SensorEvent -- Sensor's sampling period, power, and battery consumption -- The reporting modes of sensors -- Dealing with specific sensor configuration -- Checking the availability of the sensor at runtime -- Declaring the sensor as mandatory feature -- Sensor availability based on the Android API level -- Best practice for accessing sensors -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Playing with Sensors -- Understanding the sensor framework callbacks -- Seeing the big picture -- Time for action - using sensors in the foreground activity -- What just happened? -- Time for action - listing the available sensors on a device -- What just happened? -- Time for action - knowing individual sensors' capabilities -- What just happened? -- Time for action - getting the sensor values and updating the user interface -- What just happened? -- Time for action - processing the sensor values in the background service -- The phone handling algorithm -- What just happened? -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The Environmental Sensors - The Weather Utility App -- The weather utility app's requirements -- Understanding environmental sensors -- Time for action - using the temperature sensor -- What just happened? -- Getting air pressure from the phone's pressure sensor -- Time for action - calculating the altitude using the pressure sensor -- What just happened? -- Getting relative humidity from the phone's humidity sensor.

Time for action - calculating the dew point and absolute humidity -- What just happened? -- Time for action - comparing the temperature, humidity, and pressure values from web services to phone sensors -- Third-party web service - open weather map -- Using Google Play Services Location API and AsyncTask -- What just happened? -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Light and Proximity Sensors -- Understanding the light and proximity sensors -- The automatic torch light and screen brightness app requirements -- Time for action - turning the torch light on and off using the proximity sensor -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adjusting the screen brightness using the light sensor -- What just happened? -- Wake locks, wakeup sensors, and the FIFO queue -- Wakeup and non-wakeup sensors -- The sensor's hardware FIFO queue -- Summary -- Chapter 5: The Motion, Position, and Fingerprint Sensors -- Understanding motion-based sensors -- The accelerometer sensor -- The gyroscope sensor -- The gravity sensor -- The linear acceleration sensor -- The significant motion sensor -- Understanding position-based sensors -- The magnetometer sensor -- The orientation sensor -- The fingerprint sensor -- Time for action - shake detection using the accelerometer sensor -- Time for action - the compass using orientation sensor and orientation APIs -- Time for action - using the fingerprint sensor -- What just happened? -- Summary -- Chapter 6: The Step Counter and Detector Sensors - The Pedometer App -- The pedometer app's requirements -- Understanding the step counter and step detector sensors -- The step counter sensor -- The step detector sensor -- Time for action - using the step counter sensor in activity -- Time for action - maintaining step history with the step detector sensor -- What just happened?.

Understanding the walking, jogging, and running signatures using the accelerometer sensor's data -- The walking signature using the accelerometer sensor -- The jogging or fast walking signature using the accelerometer sensor -- The running signature using the accelerometer sensor -- The type of step detection algorithm -- Making it battery- and CPU-efficient using sensor fusion -- Scope for improvement -- Time for action - type of step (walking, jogging, and running) detection using the accelerometer sensor -- What just happened? -- Summary -- Chapter 7: The Google Fit Platform and APIs - The Fitness Tracker App -- The Google Fit platform -- Google Fitness Store -- REST APIs -- Android Fitness APIs -- Sensors API -- Recording API -- History API -- Sessions API -- Bluetooth Low Energy API -- Config API -- Platform basics -- Data sources -- Data types -- Data point -- Data set -- Authorization and permission scopes -- Registration with the Google developer console -- Authorization from a user in the application -- Fitness scopes -- Installing and running time permissions -- Fitness tracker app using fitness APIs -- Fitness tracker application requirements and architecture -- Time for action - working with live fitness data using the Sensors API -- What just happened? -- Time for action - recording fitness data in background using Recording API -- What just happened? -- Time for action - getting history fitness data using the History API -- What just happened? -- Asynchronous versus synchronous results callback -- Summary -- Index.

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